Great reception of the new ticket vending machine by SICE

SICE has introduced during INNOTRANS 2016 its new ticket vending machine named BIGBOX-S1. This newly designed vending/recharging machine provides the transport system users with the latest functionalities available on the market. BIGBOX-S1 allows transport contactless cards sales and charges accepting coins, notes and all kind of credit and debit cards. It also allows the charges of purchases over the Internet and reporting of intelligent card balances and movements.

Its main features are:

•Accepts EMVL2 and NFC payments

•Front and rear door, allowing all operations with coins, notes and cards to be done by the rear door reinforcing the collection safety

•Reliable mechanics avoiding coins stuck

•Fraud control through a special coins and notes counting system

•In stations without ticket offices allows to do change, verification and collection operations

•Specially designed for the use of persons with reduced mobility, also equipped with a special interface and braille signaling for persons with reduced visibility

•Reduced size with a detailed esthetic

•Led signs for operation guidance

•Vandal proof and with anti-graffiti protection

•Air-conditioning system

SICE will install the BIGBOX-S1 machines in the current developing project in Santiago de Chile city, providing the new 3 and 6 Metro de Santiago lines with 72 units. This project was awarded to SICE as of a result of a public call for tenders in the year 2015.

Also for this project, SICE is going to supply and install 148 units of its recharging ticket machine named STBOX-SC1. This machine enables speeding up the stations passengers’ flow allowing Bip! cards (Metro de Santiago transport contactless cards) holders to recharge it. In addition, this machine is a reduced size compact device that includes the most functionalities allowing users to charge their transport cards through notes, credit and debit cards and over the Internet charges.

Particularly for this project, SICE has entrusted in GMV as equipment supplier for the vending/recharging BIGBOX-S1 and STBOX-SC1 SICE’s machines.